The Sun. — London, England, 1836-05-28 00:00:00

GREAT REFORM DINNER AT IPSWICH. IPSWICH, FRIDAY.—EarIy in the morning the town began to assume an animated appearence. Groups of per eons paraded the streets, and every preparati on was ma d e to give the Members for the borough, and Mr. O'Connell, the distinguished individual who accompanied them, a hearty and sincere welcome. Exactly at two o'clock, the procession, consisting of an immense concourse of persons on foot, a band, and flags bearing suitable inscriptions, arrived on the Corn-hill, and the carriage, in which were Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., and R. Wason, Esq., M.P., drew up at the foot of the hustings, but the crowd lijas so dense, and the Blues so turbulent, that the leaders were obliged to be detached, and the Hon. Gentlemen to de scend in the midst of the populace. After much hustling and exertion, they at length found their way to the Hall door, but not before the gold-banded cap, which decorated the Liberator's brow, was wrested from it by some ruffianly hand. It was, however, quickly replaced. On his appear ance on the hustings, between the Representatives of the borough (Mr. Morrison having arrived two days before, • and had now taken his station), they were received with . loud cheers, commingled with groans and wells from the Anti Reformers. Mr. MORRISON then presented himself, and was received with loud cheers mingled with groanings. At this moment some men who had been parading the streets with a large flag, re p r esenting. a lamb in an inverted position, with the following inscription beneath—" The world turned upside down!" now stationed themselves in front of the hustings, apparently in order to shut out the speakers from the view • of tie greater part of the assembly. No sooner, however, bad this circumstance caught the notice of the meeting than . down went the banner, and it was quickly demolished. A general fight ensued, and the policemen captured one or two of the ringleaders of the affray. Mr. Morrison then, amidst great uproar, proceeded to introduce Mr. O'Connell to the meeting. It was with the greatest difficulty he could obtain an audience, and the conduct of the Tories was most outrageous and disgraceful. As soon as the lion. Gentleman had finished, Mr. O'Connell came forward, and was received with deafening cheers, which continued for several minutes. Mr. O'CoNNELL—Thai hearty English cheer delights me. lam accustomed to hear tit brogue, and the cheers that it sands to my heart are certainly arrarsgst the greatest pleasures of my life : but this is a triumph I had not expected, and would not deserve, if' your enemies din ;:ot hate me heartily.—(Loud cheers.) I am exceeding obliged to the Tories—(laughter)—and you 1611 think it an Irish reason—l am obliged to them for telling lies of me— (laughter)—and for this reason : it appeared that they had nothing true to lay to my charge, otherwise they would not be at the trouble of telling lies. A TORY (in the crowd)—Get back to Ireland ! Mr. O'CoNNELL—I wish I had you there: as you are a strang er to my country, I would treat you well and civilly. .--(Loud cheers.) They placarded the streets of Notting bam.—(Groans from the Tories.) I like to bear a groan of that kind. When the Tories groan, honest men are suc cessful. I only wish them more opportunities to groan.— (Cheers from the Reformers.) At NOttingham, I read the paragraph in which they charged me with having tra duced the women of England—(Shame, shame)—and I gave it the answer which I give it now—that it is a lie— (Loud cheers.) I said then it was a Tory lie, In Ipswich it is a Blue lie.—(Shouts of laughter.) I defied them to name time or place, when or where they could justly lay the accusation to my charge.—(Uproar among the Blues.) Now, men of Ipswich, see what base wretches they are—as Blue as Indigo—l gave them the challenge—has any man dared to put his name to the lie ?—(Loud cheers and groans from the Blues.) They are ashamed of their case, and they will not listen to have it properly described. I see Bond there. 'We were looking out for him at one time, and we could not get him. As they say in Ireland, he is as "black as a ram to-day ;" but no church mouse ever hid itself more com pletely than he did, when wanted for the purpose of justice. A bad Bond he is, and no security.—(Loud cheers and laughter, and uproar amongst the Blues.) Did you ever hear of an Irishman calumniating a woman ?—( Loud cheers.) I am ashamed that an Englishman should be found base enough to invent such a calumny ; but the fellows who call themselves worse than negro slaves in the West Indies are tie very fellows to invent calumnies of that description.— Agssin I tell you it is a lie, and I defy any man to put hi s name to the assertion, that he ever heard me say that which ha: been imputed. Gentlemen, for the first time the press of Es.-‘eland has become abandoned and despicable. They suppress what is said by our party, and they exaggerate what is said by, a nother.—(Did you hear that, Jackson ?) ••. If the person alluded to be a reporter, I wish, in his own be half, that he will repoi'.t fairly, because I never yet detected but once in my life a false report ; though I have often detected the editors of newspapers changing_ the reports of their reporters ; and I aril quite sure that the gentleman who is reporting below, will. derain -back my proclamation that this is a lie, and that I chaiLinge any man to put his nam e to the assertion, that he ever heard me calumniate th e women of England. Gentlemen, I now come to the important business that has brought me amongst you to day. I come here to plead for justice—to plead for justice to .Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) I come here to ask English men broadly for justice for Ireland ; and if the Tories be genuine Englishmen, they will hear my pleading at least, although they may decide against me afterwards ; for no thing can be more un-English, than to prevent a man being heard who pleads for justice.—(Loud cheers, and uproar from the Blues.) It is the worst species of knavery, to op- Pose the man who pleads for justice ; and, indeed, it is quite what I expected from the bribing and the bribed To ries of Ipswich.—(Loud cheers and laughter, and cries of " Shame," from the Blues.) There is somebody in the crowd, who does not like to hear of bribery.—(" Get back to Ireland, where you receive your 20,0001. a year rent.") I'll tell you a sad truth. There is not a country under the face of heaven, that has suffered so much from the govern ment of another country, as Ireland has suffered from th e Government of Great Britain. You have read with disgust, and you have learned with shuddering, the th e cruelties that have for the last two or three years been perpetrated, by the miscreant Emperor of Russia, over the cruelly-oppressed and trampled-on people of Po land. Where is the British heart, unless it be cankered by the foul taint of Toryism—where is the British heart that does not throb with emotions of grief at the evils inflicted • - upon unhappy Poland ?—(Loud cheers.) But these evils :have been endured but three or four years—Toryism has trampled upon Ireland for six centuries.—(Loud cheers, and uproar from the Blues.) You perceive its minions in Ips wich are ready to countenance and to perpetuate that in ustice for six hundred years more, if they were to live so long, which Heaven forbid—(Loud cheers, and cries of "Turn out the Blues," and great confusion for several mi nutes.) Are there any more of the Blues there to inter rupt us ? If there be not, we will go on with the story. (Order havin e s been restored, after a conflict between the .Reformers and the Blues, Mr. O'Connell proceeded.) Gentlemen, I waa stating to you how much of grief and suffering—hoa - much of calamity and crime— how much of oppression and indignity had been in flicted upon Ireland by the British Government for six centuries. The orange faction of that country, you May imagine from the conduct of your own Blues ; they `were malevolent, but your Blues were angels of light corn- Tiered to the Orange faction of Ireland.—(Laughter.) I claim for Ireland the same rights, the same institutions, the same franchises, the same privileges, that the people of England now enjoy.—(Loud cheers.) And have we not a tight to them ?—( Loud shouts of " Yes , yes.") There is a legal union between the two countries—that union ought to be perfect, or it ought to be abolished. For my own art, for many years of my life I totally despaired of seeing the power of 'Toryism so weakened as to give me a hope of justice for Ireland ; and whilst I entertained that hope tho ui eht that there was but one remedy for the woes and the wants of my country, and that that remedy consisted 111 a domestic Legislature of her own. Such were my opi nions. I acted upon these opinions. I sought the repeal of that Union, I tell you without hesitation —and I care :lot who may take an advantage of the assertion—that Ire land is able to repeal the Union if she were willing to do it. seven millions of men will never sleep from the moment th ey know their rights, and knowing their rights, have the "urage to maintain them. But Ido not seek for political c hange by force or violence. I am not for interfer- Alts ~ • with the social system—and I say in the presence of that God who shall judge me, I would not accept the best political alteration or change that could be imagined, at the 'cheeri n g.) of one drop of human blood.—(Tremendous ‘: t leering.) To sooth and to soften the despair of Ireland, 4 :dreri ng un d er cen t ur i es o f m i smanage ment, I was an ad 56Ite for the repeal of the Union, but the moment that I saw 4: reform produced in England, and seeing that they te 7,,re reealy to rally round the cause of Ireland, honest, in lgent, and independent men—such men as your repre „ll Il s o n tatives for this borough—(Great cheering)—men whom wealt could buy—they enough of' eir own ; men Whom no h co • 4 fearcould intimidahte ave —men whose th public conduct k i s guided by the _conscientious convictions of their own of cls, and by the judgment they have formed on the merits s questiorss ; I say, when I found myself sur- rou nded dby men of th at description, joining with me in the eau - • of justice for Ireland, I at once came befora the Irish • e c te : and i n th re e s eparate and distinct promises , i told f , Give up agitation for repeal—think: no snore of it ; se e can get equal justice from England for you, authorise g 0 there, and tell that intelligent and honest people at an our tet . notions of repeal are abandoned, provided you .Is e di u stice from the British Parliament,"—(Cheering.) I i lati t e nse simult aneous s h ou t o f approbation. All we want is 7t b e ;we want no more ;we won't take less—get that, a u n . n i° l / wilt then be no longer a parchment Union, but on in teality ; and here I am obeying their com- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1836. mands.(Tremendous cheering.) You may think your irs• vitatiou brought me here. You are mistaken. It was the • command of the Irish people that brought me here. They bade me appeal from the Lords and the Tories to the men of England—( Loud cheers)—for your Tories are only half men—(Laughter)—they have got a paralytic stroke upon them—their minds are half dead—a compact exists be tween them and the Satan of the political life—they are half sold to the devil—they were only a kind of walking corpses from the moment their hands were taken out of the public purse, and when picking pockets by Act of Parliament be gan to cease, they were driven to the resources of honest industry, But from this they haVe retired, from the ha bitual distaste for the pursuits of virtuous life.—(Cheers and lauesliter.) I am here appealing to the people of Eng land. What are my claims ? First, justice —next, I will say, gratitude ; for I do fearlessly say, in the presence of the people of England, that they owe us of the popular party in Ireland a debt of gratitude. I say it not by way of boast, but, in the honest assertion of truth. When the Reform Bill was first brought into Parliament—into the boroughmongering Parliament—(L aug ht er )—th ere was a majority of English Members—as they were called, the nominees of Lords, against it—and a majority of Scotch Members, including a dozen of the Dundases, against it.— (Loud laughter.) How was the majority in its favour brought about ? Why, by the overwhelming support given by the Irish popular party in support of the question.— (Loud cheers.) I will not go through the details of other motions for which we voted in the House of Commons ; but I ask you, can any man amens , vou point out one single bad vote that the Irish popular Members ever gave ? (Loud shouts of " No ! ") Did we ever vote to increase the burdens of the English people ? Never ! Did we ever vote to diminish their franchise ! Never !—(A refor mer in the crowd—" You have always voted to extend it.") To extend it-! You are right ! I thank you. That was an honest English clerk who called " Amen."—(Loud cheers and laughter.) I wish those Blues, instead of being surly, and groaning as they did— I wish two or three would stand up there • till I have cate cl:ised them a little.—(Laughter.) 1 wish they would an swer me two or three questions.—(Shouts of " There are two or three before you.") Oh, never mind them (looking down upon the reporters), they are writing and not speak in but I will call upon them to point out any vote th a t the Irish popular Members ever gave, that was not founded on the genuine principles of civil and religious liberty towards all mankind? I care not what be the creed—what be the caste. I care not what be the alarm of any human being ; I stand up for liberty for every one of God's creatures, and for freedom to every Christian community.—(Loud cheers.) Civil and reli gious liberty is the motto that is upon our escutcheon, and the Irish popular party have voted on every occasion in favour of civil and religious liberty for all mankind. This has been the pursuit of my entire political life. See what my complaint is ! Scotland has got Corpo ration Reform, and right well the Scotch have be haved with it. They did not return a single Dundas from the moment they got corporation reform. They left many. —(Groans from the Tories.) See how these people groan from sympathy for a Dundas.—(Loud laughter.) That is the first act of Tory commiseration, for the moment I named Dundas, the Tories began to groan.—(Laughter.) They are quite right, and I humbly thank them for that groan. They left Dundas to come to Ipswich ! Do you know what has happened ? Why Kelly has made an affi davit, and so has Dundas, that they did not bribe at all— (Loud laughter)—or know of it—(Continued laughter.) There was bribery in abundance, and, -nobody knew of it.— (Loud laughter.) Did you ever hear of the story of the innocent Abigail, who went to hell without committing sin —(Roars of laughter) ? Kelly and Dundas are the inno cent Abigails, who bribed a number of people without knowing it.—(Continued laughter, washouts to the reporter for the Ipswich Journal of " Put that down.") Scotland, I say, has got corporation reform : England has got it ; and what have the House of Lords done ? They say the - people of Ireland are unfit and unworthy to have corporate reform.— (Loud shouts of " Shame," and " Reform the Lords.") When the Duke of Wellington was in the heat of the fight at Waterloo, did be turn round and say to the Irish soldiers then bleeding about him on every side, that they were unfit and unworthy to be set in the first rank. Did he say so ? —(Loud shouts of " No, no," and cheers.) Captain SMITH (in the crowd)—Was not our navy manned by the Irish in the last war ; and were not Irish enlisted in the army ? Mr. O'CONNELL (to Smith) : You arc as sturdy a look ing Reformer as I desire to see. I like to see your honest face ; but keep your mouth shut till I have done. You are an honest fellow. Honest Jack Smith, I know you—(Laugh ter.) Lord Nelson, at Trafalgar, when he exhibited from the mast-head, " England expects every man to do his duty," did he order the Irish down the hatchways, and say they were unfit and unworthy to share in the triumph that was gained? Oh no ! And I ask you, was the ark of British glory ever floated to victory upon a stream-of human blood, that the Irish were not. commingled with the English ? After alluding to the gallant conduct of the- British Legion in Spain at San Sebastian, under the command of Lieut.- General Evans, who is an Irishman—Mr. O'Connell said, I am for binding up those links between the two countries. Ireland is in distress and in want. . There arc three million three hundred thousand inhabitants in beggary and distress. Why.? Not because she has any natural wants—not be cause her fields are fertile, and her plains productiveah, no! The wind of heaven never blows so cold' as to blast her with sterility--the summer's sun never burns so hot as to parch her into barrenness—green are her fields, and lovely are her valleys, and noble are her Mountains and her streams ; there is not on the face of the earth a more productive or beautiful country than that inhabited by the oppressed people of Ireland. What is the curse upon her ? Toryism and misgovernment. After some further remarks, Mr. O'Connell proceeded. Whilst the Government was carried on by corruption—whilst men bought scats and went into Parliament, that they might sell the nation— whilst men corrupted poor freemen, in order that they might obtain honour, office, and emolument, so long as that traffic existed, I am not surprised that men, without feeling themselves morally degraded, should have sold their votes at elections. That period is now past. The House of Commons is reformed ; and it is now time that the freemen should reform themselves. The wretch who offers or takes a bribe would pick your pocket. He has the instinct of dishonesty upon him ; he is worse than the unfortunate negro slave, because lie never sells himself. And 'what wretches are they who • would make the purchase ? They are whitewashed sepulchres ! What man was ever the better for a bribe?—(Loud cheers.) What do I wait ? I want you to form societies to discountenance crimes of this description. After ridicul ing the claims of the Tories to exclusive loyalty, and after referring to the events of 1830, when the Throne was in volved in the unpopularity and guilt of the then Govern ment, lie recalled to their recollection the state of the country when the Duke of Wellington went out of ..office. The commercial interests were suffering to an almost un precedented extent ; the operative classes were forming Political Unions, and 36,000 men paraded the streets of London. In what state was the agricultural inte;. rests ? The stacks were burning in the farm-yards in every direction, and night was rendered hideous by crime. These were the fruits of Tory government. What is the state of the country at the present period? There is not a hand in the northern provinces that is not in employment, and even the farming interest, the most depressed, will, if reform continue to progress for one twelve month more, be, as well as the other great interests of the country, rendered equally prosperous.—(Loud cheers.) Such is the difference between Toryism and Reform. He then professed himself in favour of an extension of the fran chise, the shortening of the duration of Parliaments, and the Vote by Ballot, es the necessary ingredients of liberty. Look to Ireland ! The Irish people are obliged to support a Church to which they do not belong, but of late they have got a trick not to pay at all ; and there is no man so obstinate as he who will not produce his money when re quested to do so. The Irish people support a Church of their own ; they support 22 Bishops, four Archbishops, and more than 3,000 Priests of their own. Why do I advert ' to this ? :To show the working of the voluntary principle in the hands of men of religious impression's, No man is a a good man who hag not strong religious. impressions ; and a , strong sense of religtoo is all-sufficient to procure a sufll- • cient number of labourers for On vineyard of Heaven. Are not the Dissenting Ministers as good Workmen as the clergymen of the Established Church ?—(Loud elsers,) I am sorry to have trespassed so long—(Loud shouts of " Go on," and great cheereig)—but I believe there is one chap ter which I have not yet touch e d upon. I beg pardon for speaking of it before honest men—l wan the House of Lords. I wouhl not use an improper word in the presence of friends, and within hearing of honest men, and I am • w ee d, therefore, to apologize far speaking of the House of Lords. --(proud o laughter.) The first ab sur dity i n th e con stitutionf that House is this :—A man is n o t o nly a L or d legislator himself, bat he beget s L or d s an d l eg i s l ators. a _..(Lotid laughter.) NOW, I plat it to your common sense, if you want a coat. an 4 a MAP call, grAl says, " Come, I will make a coat for you, as cheap .ass any, loan ? ?? p ra y , /Dv friend, are you„a tailor ?" " No," mslys lie, of but 149401 g o a; h e is taking off th e til es, you as k hi m, faihee was a tailor. — (La u g hter. ) And if a man come to slate your Pray arc you a sl st 4?" and if he reply, " Oh no , my f at h er i d;ed when I was, very youpg., Tft Ply grandfath er was a slaters" ssei;;ld you not turn the s ate!' E6g yphir roof' ? 041 4 ki p !, the pretended. ent of doors ?-7(Loud ,cheere, anti oboists of ." Yes, yes:v) 494 ypf it is as great an a b sur di ty ; OW law of the land wllie l P OPYi4e§ OPP man sh a ll o e . born a legislator. it is harder to palFe 4 !Mr than tg ,§i4f: a house s' and fifty peewit Wit bungle a ceat, that peold not make an Act of Pariiatnent.,-(boud laughter.) Is it decent ? But this is fiie way in ibid.) tiw iiivrtio of the people of Ireland are invaded ; and from this spot I throw bark the insult—Lyndhurst and Londonderry, a goose that amused himself by going out to shoot crows, and Win chilsea ani the Duke of Newcastle, and other pious saints of that kind—they have insulted us, but I have the pleasure to tell you that the people of Ireland are aroused from one end of the kingdom to the other. They have raised a shout that has extended to the generous and the brave people of England ; that shout 41;711 be heard in the midst of Westminster-hall, and the puny Lords will shrink from it.—(Loud cheers.) I am averse to violence. I am for the peaceable but determined expression of public opinion. I am for cleansing the Augean stable of the Lords, but not for destroying the stable, or any of the good horses that may be in it ; as to the asses, that is another question.— (Loud cheers and laughter.) I remember at a meeting of the working classes in London having stated that the Augean stable ought to be cleansed. I was asked, how it could be done, and I said, according to the old story, that a river was turned into it, arid it was cleansed by means of the' river flowing through ; whereupon a friend, like honest Jack Smith, then took off his hat, and said, " Pray, in stead of turning the river into the House of Lords, might not we as well turn the Lords into the river ?"—(Loud laughter.) " Oh, no," said I, " don't do that ; there is so much lead about the heads of some of them that they would stick in the mud ; we do not want to put them to death, for if they were put into the river they would he drowned from the weight of their own pericraniums."— (Loud laughter.) Thanks be to Heaven, prosperity is in creasing under the hands of a Reforming Ministry. I sup port that Ministry, and I call upon the Radicals to join me in giving them their honest and conscientious support, who, though they do not go far enough for me and my brother Radicals, yet still go 'a good way with us, and who have hitherto progressed with safety, between the people and the Tories, the latter of whom would put down the Radi ca l s with bayonet and the musket, as they: put them down at Manchester, when assembled to petition for Reform.— (Long-continued cheering.) Mr. WASON then. addressed the meeting in a short but animated speech, which our limits will not permit us to give After this address the meeting began to separate, and in a short time the crowd left the hall. THE DINNER. In consequence of the accommodation at any of the inns in the town being inadequate to the reception of the great number of persons who had purchased tickets, the theatre was engaged for the dinner. The tables extended over the stage, across a platform with which the pit was covered to the dress-boxes in the centre of the house ; and between three and four hundred persons sat down to dine. The principle table was placed across the stage, a short distance behind the footlights. Mr. Seekamp was in the chair ; Mr. Morrison and Mr. O'Connell were on his• right, and Mr. Wason on his left. Colonel Addison, the Mayors of Yarmouth, Ipswich, and Bury St. Edmunds, and the magistrates of the town were also among the company. The stage was tastefully decorated with banners and evergreens, and a band of instrumental music was stationed in the gallery. Mr. O'Connell, on his entrance, was received with the utmost enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN gave " The King"—(great cheering)— " Health and happiness to her, Majesty the Queen"—(loud cheers)—" The Princess Victoria, the pride and future hope of the nation"—(enthusiastic cheers)—" The Duke of Sussex, _and the rest of the Royal Family"—(prolonged cheers)—" Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers, and may they long continue to merit the confidence of the people."—(Deafening cheers, and waving of handkerchiefs protracted for a considerable tune.) The CHAIRMAN then gave " James Morrison and Rigby Wason, Esqrs., the Members for the Borough." This toast was received with the utmost enthusiasm. • Mr. MOnalsosr rose amidst loud and long-continued cheering. This was the third Parliament in which he had had the honour of representing the town of Ipswich, and he could not help thinking just now, when they were doing justice to the health of Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers upon the altered circumstances of the country, and the altered situation of parties in , that town since he first had — the honour of appearing amongst them.(Hear, hear.) He thought that they, the Reformers, had a right to rejoice that their predictions had been more than realised, and that there was not now a man, not even, he believed, in the House of Lords, who would not acknowledge that the Reform Bill had been most bene ficial to the country.—(Cheers.) It seemed remarkable when one considered the length of time that the Tories were in pOssession of office, to see how little they had done for the interests of agriculture: -The present Govern ment and the reformed Parliament had not only re moved all the direct taxes paid by agriculturists, even down to the shepherd's dogs, about which at one time they had heard so much—but they had taken off a portion of the county-rates.—(Hears hear.) They, too, first relieved the stock of the farmer (and very pro perly) from tho payment of tax on fire insurance, and this year they proposed to take it off the barns of the landowners themselves.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He was glad to hear those whom he had then the honour to address, receive that day the health of Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers, in the hearty and enthusiastic manner that they had done.—(Hear, hear.) But they must never forget ,the authors of the Reform Bill ; it was a merit of which Lord Grey and his Government could not be deprived, and posterity must do them justice.—( Hear, bear.) But Earl Grey was not dispoocd to go so far as the advancing. intelligence , of the country required ; and his Government became, in a certain degree, unpopular. But the present Government, wiser than that which preceded it, was prepared to go such lengths as he thought would justify the expectations of all reasonable men.—(Cheers.) They had obtained, Municipal Reform for England and for Scotland. The House of Lords last year were, it. W as supposed, over-reached—or - rather they over-reached them selves, in the case of the English Municipal Reform Bill. They thought that the . House of Commons would reject the Bill, as they had amended it. But . they were mis taken—the Commons accepted it. The House of Lords had in consequence grown more cautious, and this year they had so determined to alter the Irish Municipal Re form Bill, as to make it quite sure that the CoMmons. would not take it.—(Great cheering.) . His opinion certainly was, that if the Commons did accept the Bill in the shape in which the Lords were determined to send it down to them, the fault would rest with them, and not with the House of Lords.—(Cheers.) It was the duty of the English not merely to compassionate the Irish, but to . fly to their succour.—( Hear, hear.) He conceived it to be quite - impossible that against the declared opinion of so large a a majority of the people of England as he believed was in favour of measures beneficial to the people of Ireland, that the Lords could long hold out.—(Cheers.) They might fail to obtain the measure of Municipal reform that year ; but another year, he was convinced,.would not pass away without having that great question settled to the entire sa tisfaction of the people of Ireland.—(Cheers.) If good municipal institutions were given, and if Parliament and the Government continued to act in the anti-Orange spirit which had lately been evinced, they might hope, at no very distant period, to find an army as unnecessary in Ireland as it was in Suffolk.---(Cheers.) Mr. Riga Y WASoN said his opinion was, that justice would not be done to Ireland unless one of two things was done—unless they had a Tory Government, which he trusted the people would never bear ; or unless the House of Lords was reformed.—(Cheers.) There was a Consti tutional mode of reforming the House of Lords, which in extreme cases had been resorted to by former Ministers, and which he thought should be brought into operation at the present moment—he meant, to increase the number of the Members of that House to such an extent as to give the Government a majority. Mr. J. P. READE, after a few introductory observations, in the course of which he advocated the expulsion of the Bishops from the House of Lords, proposed—" Our dis tinguished visitor, Daniel O'C onne ll, E sq ., M.P., and justice to Ireland." - Mr. O'CONNELL rose to acknowledge the toast, but the applause was so deafening and incessant, that it was many minutes before he was enabled to proceed. After a consi derable interval, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman pro ceeded to address the assemblage as follows :—I was ex ceedingly amused at the scene I saw going on this morning. I have, in my own country, stood more than once to see a set of sturdy Iriih labourers weeding a garden, the one pulling out a dock leaf, another a bramble, and a third a nettle: Why that is just what I saw to-day.—(Loud cheers.) There was first a dock leaf and then a bramble tern away, until at last all the nettles were caught hold of, and they did not sting either, because they were well caught. 's--(Loud cheers.) They were all cleared out, until at last we got what we should call in Ireland a garden of posies of our own.—(Laughter.) I like to see this sort of triumph over the Tories, it is juSt the way we should proceed: We do not hurt or injure them ; we oely deprive them of the opportunity of doing mischief to themselves.—(Cheers.) As sure as to morrow's sun shall gild the horizon, so surely shall the sun of British justice shine over the plains, and.illumine the vallies of Erin. But there is another presence here. Oh ! Tories I thank you. If you - had a true Charge to make ae iqit j me, you would not be fools enough to listen to false aecu satinns,—(Cheers.) Standing in that presence, oh—may not ho permitted to say—l who have daughters, may not the father of those danglitors he pprrnltt l A to §gy that presence, that thrill as it would my frame, and *con vulse as it would my nature, I would, as a man and a gen tleman, rather weep over those daughters' graves, than be gliqty nf Op paltry crime which has be en i m p u t e d to me. 'Yes; yes, F4tiTT RYPF 0 1 P4 , 41'4! , c4t Yet -- r yet they are dear tome—lovely as the leveliness that Shines from the galaxy of beaety in that circle, and new their little elfildren ,arepiinclsirp' -$ name; and yet Tories say a !TT that J cogtc $.004 derPOPfili fif tlaplr NeYoTP I -14 and pFolonged checrins, nncl twin of handkerchiefs,) Oh I thank them; for the presence of the purity, piety, truth, and beauty that surround me, prove that your breasts are with me, and that you disbelieve the foul turpitude laid to my charge.—(Cheers.) Again I thank the Tories. I feel the best abused man in the world. The only pledge I can give is, that I will deserve in future, if I possibly can, ten times more of the Tories' abuse—(Cheers.) This gorgeo•;s assembly proves to me with the force of demon stratiol, that it is impossible justice should not be done to Ireland, backed as our seven millions are by that determi nation of England, which, like the tide in its flowing, steadi ly, but quietly and continuously, advances ; but which, un like that tide in its ebbing, never retreats from the surface it has once covered (cheers.) While liberty floats on the tri umphant wave of English popular opinion, hurrah for the good ship l—she is fair for the port of justice--(Loud cheers.) Remember again what it is we ask. We ask for justice. We ask for no more. We will never be content with less—( Loud cheers.) Oppose us if we ask for more— sp.se u 3 if ue ake less-(Cheers.) Scotland has had municipal reform, and right well have the canny Scots . availed themselves of it. The House of Lords perceived the immense value to Scotland of a perfect corporate re form. England called for a corporate reform. The House of Lords sneakingly endeavoured to distort it. They be fouled the cup with the slaver of their opposition, but there was some of the wine of life in it still. John Bull caught hold of it, and Ipswich is my witness that the liquor was good.—(Loud cheers.) Ireland was left last. I hope in any battle in which England and. Scotland take part, Ire land will not be left last ; she is not in the habit of taking that post ; it ,has been thrown upon her, and it is no fault of hers. It may be said, though nobody has said it yet, that the corporations of Scotland are better, or less bad—for that is the word—than those of Scotland were, nobody says it—nobody cane There was Peel eleven or twelve years in Ireland, toasted and shouted on by these corpora tions, making beautiful speeches, promising all manner of fine things to them, and justifying the application to him self of the lines which have been before coupled with his name— Of promise prodigal, when power you want, And preaching still in self-asserting cant. (Cheers.) There he was ; lie never attempted to change anything in these Corporations ; he never attempted to improve them ; and yet, when their trial came on in the House of Commons, he had not one word to say in their behalf—(Cheers.) Stanley, the calamity of his party, and the curse of Ireland—Stanley got up and said that the most abominable Corporations in the world were those of Ireland ; and he was quite right. In the House of Lords no man denied -it. Lyndhurst, who has as much power of face- as any man who began his career a Jacobite and ended it a Tory, never denied it ; Londonderry, who never blushes at all, blushed for the Irish Corporations ; Roden, Winehilsea, and Newcastle were so orthodox that they were absent at their prayers, and allowed the Irish Corporations to be abused. and calumniated without say ing a word in their behalf. England has had her fifteen shillioqs in the pound ; Scotland has had her payment in foll ; but not a farthing for Ireland. Oh! they have insulted her. They have told us we are un worthy to have Corporations at all. I tell them they lie in their throats.—(Loud cheers.) I think that is plain English.—(Cheers, and a laugh.) But then they say—now mark the hypocrisy of these Lords—these Corporations are very bad : we are lovers of liberty, and in the first place we will extinguish them all. Now, IdO not like repeating bard words, but in plain English again, this is another lie. They have not extinguished them, because they keep up the entil e frame work. Such is the treatment of Ireland by the Lords. I repudiate the insult offered to the Irish people. I ask for Ireland what Scotland has got, and England en joys. Every honest man agrees with me that the Union between England and Ireland ought to be a real one ; that it Should not be a " toss-up—heads ! I win ; tails ! you lose."—(Cheers and laughter.) It ought not to be the Union of the master and the slave ; it ought not to be the Union of the giant and the dwarf, where the dwarf got all the blows, and the giant all the plunder. It should be a Union of brotherhood and feeling that should make no dis tinc'.ion between Kerry and Suffolk—beyond this, indeed, that there are few Tories in Kerry, and many more of them in Suffolk.—(Cheers and laughter.) We have bad several plans for reforming the House of Lords—(Loud cheers) — I mine ; my friend, your excellent Member (Mr. Wason) has his ; and the gentleman who did me the honour Of proposing my health has his. Well, I now agree with them all.—(Loud laughter.) If you will only set about the reformation, I will consult with those two gentlemen, whose plan shall be adopted ; and if you will only set about it, I will give them their choice.—(Loud cheers, and a laugh.) By-the-bye, the suggestion made for the exclusion of the Bishops, is one of sound goad sense. Religion and politics are as different as heaven and earth.—(Cheers.) What is the last new patent scheme for convincing the peo ple of Ireland of the error of their ways t—Filing bills in tile Court of Exchequer, issuing processes of rebellion, breaking open men's houses at night, and taking them to prison. Did you ever k now c h ar it y encouraged by means of a lawsuit, or religion promoted through the instrumen tality of attorneys and lattitats ?—(Loud cheers.) What was the last scheme? It was calling out the police in sad and fatal earnest. Th e n ame o f Rathcormac still rings in my cars. Three-and-fourpence was due from a - poor widow of the name of Ryan. She sat at breakfast with her two sons, fine healthy boys who would not go to America, where they could have earned twice as much, because their mo ther was a widow and helpless, and their two sisters un married. They rose to go to work for her support, and quitted the meal with her blessing, They left her, and one of them she never saw alive again. Her own testimony was this—" I h ear d the firing •and rushed out from my cabin. I saw a body, and turned it over. I laughed aloud : for it was not that of my son—(poor woman ! she forgot there was somebody else to cry for him). I turned over another ; I laughed again : it was not my son. I turned over a third ; oh ! it was my boy-he who had left me a few hours before, in happiness and health. I did not weep, I did not cry ; I never will weep, I never will cry more ! Balls of fire are in my bead, instead of eye-balls !" This is not imaginatigu or fiction : it is the simple testimony of this poor woman'', simple testimony upon the Bible of God.---(Deafening cries of " Shame.") But the three ..apd: four-pence were for given ? No ! the man who was entitled to it, went with his feet wet with the heart's blood of her son, and cried Give me my money !" Is this to continue in Ireland ? (Loud and tremendous cheers, and cries of " Never.") It may be said this is a twenty times told tale. Let it be proclaiMed, trumpet-tongued, twenty millions of times, until every humane and virtuous Englishman feels his heart throb with indignation, and his arm rise with an involuntary emotion, to strike home to the destruction of such men, The Hon. and Learned Gentleman resumed his seat amidst enthusiastic and prolonged cheering. Several other toasts were afterwards drank, amongst which were " Civil and Religious Liberty ;" Joseph Hume, Esq., and the two other Members of Parliament who co operated with him in exposing Orange confederacy ;" " The Reformers of the County ;" and " The Bishop of Norwich and the Liberal Clergy of the diocese." The company did not•separate till a late hour. IRELAND. GREAT MEETING of the COUNTY of MEATH. The county of Meath has nobly done its duty. It has set an example to the counties of Ireland. Last Wednesday. at two o'clock, a public meeting was held at Navaa, to protest against Lord Lyndhurst's insulting Bill, and to petition for a total and unqualified abolition of tithes, The requisition was signed by nine Peers, five Baronets, the Lord Lieutenant of the County, five Deputy Lieutenants, three Members of Parliament, twenty Magistrates, and an immense number of the olorgy and freeholders of the county. The meeting was convened by the High Sheriff, and the wealth and respectability, the rank and station of the county, were fully represented there. A preliminary meeting was held in the Grand Jury Room, at the Court House, to agree to the resolutions to be proposed. Lord Killeen was in the chair; and excellent resolutions, the production of Mr. Winter, of Tullyard, of Dr. Mullen, and Mr. William Ford, were adopted. H. MEREDITH, Esq., the High Sheriff, took the Chair in the Ceuri House. When he t oo k it h e was loudly cheered. The Court House was crowded to excess, and as thousands were unable to pro cure admission, the Meeting adjourned to the Fair Green, The HIGH SHERIFF read the requisition, and concluded his address by expressing his anxious wish for the approach of the day tvhen every Irishman would be happy, prosperous, and contented.—( Loud cheers.) Dr. MuLLEN thanked the meeting for the high honour they had conf erre d upon hi m i n appointing him Secretary. He referred to the requisition to prove that the rank, wealth, respectability and constituency of the county were on the side of the people. The Marquis of Ileadford, the first person on the list, was one of the largest lay impropriators in Ireland.— ( Hear.) He had received a letter from Mr. Sharman Craw, ford, M. P., on the wording of their requisition, and hp Would only sac that when the letter reached him it Was too late to alter the terms, because f?,gg oprserts had signed it. Mr. Crawford had yeti of e expression from which he must dissent. He had said the Ministerial Tithe Bill was like a nut without a kernel. It contained the appropriation clause, and that was etlollgli to entitle it to a grateful aQVPO I- IWe t It was on that Very GtltlSe thmtho Tcple4 were driven from Cifike.—( Cheers.) Ile (4i4 nqt think Chore was ono Man In that great meeting who did not place the fullest eonfidence is the Vlinistry—particu lady after the speeches of • Lord John - Russell and Lord Lansdowne.—( Loud cheers.) Lord KILLEEN had often addressed the men qf, Meath, lout never tinder circumstances. whicit h aqnAtacircii go important bill 1• 1 19 Hear,) He trustedthe Lords' mutilate d wo - ,41c1 be rej..!cted hy the Corntnons.—( Hear,) He hoped from Lord Ratssell's speech, that he wo u ld himself move the rejeotiqa of. it,—(owers,) he'did, the Ministry would be secure, Lint if they entered upon any compromise 'involving principle, they would forfeit thereby the confidence of the people of Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) His Lordship moved the first resolution demanding equal justice for Ireland. The Freeman's Journal, from whose report we take thisne cessarily brief notice of one of the most importint meetings recently held, contains also a report of the proceedings of a numerous meeting at Tullamore, on the 22d, upon the sub ject of the Tithe system and Corporate Reform. The people are meeting everywhere to record their indignation at the in sulting denial of justice which the Tory majority threw in tLe face of Ireland. HIS MAJESTY'S LEVEE. His Majesty held a Levee yesterday at St. James's, which was very numerously attended. The Duke of Brunswick arrived at the Palace at one o'clock, and had an interview with the King in the Royal Closet. His Royal Highness remained with his Majesty till the commencement of the Levee, at which his Royal Highness was present: His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, accompanied by the hereditary Prince and Prince Alexander of the Nether lands, and attended by Count Limburg Stirum ; their Serene Highnesses the reigning Duke of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, the Hereditary Prince Albert, and the Prince of Leningen, attended by, Sir John Conroy, Baron d'Alvensleben and Count Kolowrat ; their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cumberland and Prince George of Cambridge arrived, and were respec tively introduced to the King in the Royal Closet. The King entered the Throne Room at two o'clock, ac companied by their Royal and Serene Highnesses, &c. The entree company were then introduced. _ln the circle, Count Denedanville (Peer of France) was presented to his Majesty by Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador. - Count Jean Baptiste Metaxa, of Cephalonia, was presented to the King by Lord Glenelg. The Levee was attended by the Russian and French Am bassadors ; the Neapolitan, Prussian, Sardinian, Swedish, Wurtemberg, Hanoverian, Danish, Portuguese, Grecian, Bavarian, Brazilian, Netherlands, and Saxon Ministers ; Noory Effendi, Ottoman Minister, accompanied by Mr. Salame, his Majesty's Oriental Interpreter; M. de Humme latter, Austrian Charge d'Affaires; Mr. Vail, Charge d'Af faires of the United States of America; M. Wallez, Belgian Charge d'Affaires ; M. Philip Friell, and the Moulvee Ma homed Ismail Khan (accompanied by Captain M. Grindley), Ambassadors from the King of Oude ; Count Seckendorfl; Secretary to the Prussian Legation ; M. Lichtenberg, Privy Councillor of the Hanoverian Legation ; Chevalier de Ri beiro, Secretary to the Portuguese Legation ; M. Lebzel tern, Attache to the Austrian Embassy ; Mr. Vogoridis, Se cretary to the Ottoman Legation ; Count Erdody, Colonel Baron d'Ompteda, Aid-de-Camp to the Duke of Cambridge; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole, the Master of the Horse, the Captain of the Yeoman Guard ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Master of the Buckhounds, the Master General of the Ordnance; Mr. John M'Neill, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia ; the Judge Advocate-General, the Treasurer of the Household s the Comptroller of the Household, the Attorney-General, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, the Adjutant- General of the Forces, the Dean of Hereford, the Rev. Dr. Foord Bowes, and the Rev. M. Wynward, Deputy-Clerks of the Closet; the Master of the Ceremonies, the Master of the Robes, Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod; Sir William Burnett, K. C. I-1., Physician to the King ; Sir Astley Cooper, Bart., Sergeant-Surgeon to the King ; the Attorney- General for Ireland; Lord Radstock, Naval Ail-de-Camp in Waiting • the Earl of Aboync, Lord Saltoun, and Colonels Sir L. dreenwell, C. 8., Sir R. H. Dick, Sir J. Harvey, Sir A. Dalrymple, Sir C. Thornton, Baker, Elphinstone, Gibbs, and Le Couteur, Aides-de-Camp to the King • the Clerk Marshal ; Lord Frederick Fitzclarence and Colonel Bowater, Equerries to the King; Sir Patrick Walker, Usher of the White Rod; Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadoes ; Cap tain George Pechel, R.N., M.P., Equerry to her Majesty ; Major Hyde, Assistant Master and Marshal of the Ceremonies; Mr. Sergeant Arabin, the Queen's Attorney and Solicitor- General; Mr. Stephenson, Page of Honour ; Captain Cour tenay Boyle : R.N., Groom of the Privy Chamber; and Mr. Strachan, Gentleman Usher to the 'King. The following were presented to the King : Colonel Bowater, on being appointed Lieut.-Colonel of the Scots Fusileer Guards, by Lord Hill. Viscount Melgund, by Lord Minto. Mr., Charles Dance, on being appointed one of his Majesty's Hun. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. Doctor Aldis, to present his work, dedicated to his Majesty, entitled " Introduction to Hospital Practice." Mr. Stevenson, to present a new edition of his work on Cataract. Mr. Richard Hodgson, by Sir George Tuite, Bart. Mr. Alfred Dowling, on going abroad on an inquiry into the rights of British subjects in foreign countries. Cornet Tollemache, by Vice- Admiral Tollemache. Mr. Stonor, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, by Mr. Harcourt. Mr. Brodie, of Brodie, by Lord Saltoun. Mr. William Edward Suttees, by the Bishop of Exeter. Mr. Thomas Henry Graham, by Sir Andrew Agnew. Rev. Prodgers, by the Right Hon. Lord Arden. Samuel Gardner, his Majesty's Consul at Jassy, on his appointment, by Viscount Palmerston. Sir David Kinlock, by Lord Elphinstone. Lord Aberdour, on being appointed Ensign in the 71st Regi ment, by the Earl of Morton. Mr. Owen Blayney Cole, on his marriage, by the Hon. Cap tain Sir Ashley Maude, R. N. Mr. David Dundas, by Mr. Blackburne, K. C. Captain Moncrieff, on his marriage, by Colonel Bowater. Mr. Burgh, by Lord Berners. The Rev. C. Crook, Rector of Bath, by Lord J. Thynne. Mr. Smythe, Shropshire Yeomanry, by Sir E. Smythe. The Bishop of Montreal, on his consecration, by the Arch bishop of Canterbury. Mr. M'Leod, of M'Leod, by Lord Saltoun. Lieut. Egerton, R. N., by Lieut.-General Sir C. Egerton. The Rev. E. D. Scott, by Mr, G. G. Harcourt. Mr. W. Meyer, Consul General of Albania, on his return home. Mr. Millett, by Sir G. T. Staunton, Bart. Mr. R. Palmer, on being appointed Deputy-Lieutenant for Mayo, by Mr. Mackinnon, M. P. Mr. J. M'Neill, Minister Plenipotentiary tc the Court of Per sia, to take leave, by Lord Palmerston. Mr. Urquhart, to take leave. Mr. Edmonds, Clerk of the Crown, by Lord Denman. Mr. Saikies, on his arrival from Bengal, by Sir .J. Hobhouse. Major E. A. Campbell, on his return from India, by his father, Sir R. Campbell, Bart. Captain Morris, by Sir J. Carnac. Captain Biggs, by Sir H. Vivian. Lieut.- Colonel F. Davies, Grenadier Guards, on his marriage, by Admiral Sir B. Martin. Sir W, Ainslie, on having received the honour of knighthood, by Lord Somerville. Lieut.-Colonel Eden, on promotion, by Lieut.-General Eden. Dr. Neil Maxwell, by Sir J. Hobhouse. Lieut.-Colonel T. Wooldridge, K. H., on appointment to the third class of the Royal Guelphic Order, by Lieut.-General Sir H. Montresor. Mr. J. H. Jones, by Lord Duncannon. Mr. 11. Gill, on his marriage, by Lieut.-General Callender. Captain H. Ogles, Royal Blues Yeomanry, by the Marquis of Ely. Mr. Its Pulsford, by Rear-Admiral Sir R. H. Murray, K. C. B. Lieutenant- Colonel P. Phipps, on receiving the third class of the Guelphic Order, by Sir H. Taylor. Lieutenant-General Sir T. Makdougall Brisbane, K. C. 8., on being created a Baronet, by General Lord Hill, G. C. B. Lieutenant-General Orde, by Lord Hill. Dr. W. Hunter, by Lord F. Fitzclar e n ce . _ Sir J. B. Mill, il;rt., on coming to his title, by Lord Pal . merston. Mr. J. Robbins, on being appointed a Lieutenant in the Lymington Yeomanry, by Mr. Mackinnon, M. P. Captain Tomkyos, on promotion and return from abroad, by Sir 11. Vivian. Mr. E. Bliss, on being appointed High Sheriff, county Suf folk, by Lord Dunboyne. Rev. NV. H. Holworthy, Chaplain to his Majesty's late Em bassy in the Netherlands, on his return to England, by Viscount Palmerston. Mr. Urquhart, Deputy Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire, by Lieutenant-Colonel • Fox. Captain De Lacy, on his return from the West Indies, by Lieutenant-Colonel C. Wyndham. Licutenant.Colonel A. Roberts, on his return tc India, by Lord Combermere. Major-General Monckton, by the Earl of Cork. captaitt Pointer, by Sir H, Vivian. Brigadier-General C. Dallas, late Governor of St. Helena, by Lieutenant-General Si r T. Dallas. Captain Gage, on his promotion, by Colonel Bowater. Hon. Captain Cavendish, on his return from India, by Lord Wat erpark. Captain XV. 0. Colt, by Sir G. Tuite, Bart. Lieutenant 11. Coode, R. N., by Lord Minto. Captain J. Steel, by Lord Combermere. Captain V. Graham, on his promotion, by Lord Brudenell. Lieutenant E. Franklin, R.N., by Lord Minto. Lieutenant P. Inglis R.N., by Captain Hcn. G. Elliot, C. B. Lieutenant H. W. Hill, R.N., on his return from foreign ser vice, by Rear_ Admiral Hill. Captain Cuppage, R. N., on his return from the Continent, by Earl Tinto. Captain I. J. Lowth, on his promotion and return from India, by the Duke of Dorset. Captain H. Simpson, by Lieut.-General Sir G. Walker, Bart. Captain Dudgeon, by Lord Reay. Commander E. S. Carpenter, on return from foreign service, by Earl Minto. Captain Horeby, on his appointment as Extra Naval Aid-de- Camp, by Earl Minto. Rnsigu Walter, on his appointment to the 53d Regiment and return from Brunswick, by the Hon. Colonel Lydon. Ensign Marmaduke Langdale, on his appointment to the 41st Regiment, by Lieut.-General Sir H. Taylor. C o rnet Denman, on his appointment to the Derbyshire Yeo manry, by Lieut.-General Sir T. Molyneux, Bart. Ensign Lionel Smith, on his appointjttent to the 54th Regi ment, by General Gascoyne. Lieut.-Colonel Smythe, on his return from India, by Lieut.- General Sir T. Dallas, G. C.B. Ensign H. Edwards, on his appointment to the s9th Regi- Mont ?ay General' Sir R. Maefarlane. Comet Farquharson, by the Marquis Conynghain. Cornet 11. J. Percy, by Lord Cole. Lieut. Robinson, by Sir F. Mulcaster. Lieut. Brickenden i on promotion, by the Earl of Cavan. Major Crosse, by Major-General Lord F. Somerset. Lieut.-Colonel Dixon, on promotion, by Col. Bowater. Colonel Aitchinson, on promotion and appointment to the com mand of the 21 Battalion Scots Fusileer Guards, by Col. Bowater, _ - Major Boileau, on his return from India and promotion, by Major- General Sir A Barnard. Lieut.- Colonel Hope, on appointment to the 21st Fusileers, by General Lord Hill. Lieut. E. St. John Jepbson, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Lieut.-Col. John Home, by General Viscount Combermere. Col. G. Hunter, C. 8., on his return from India, by Viscount Comberinere. Lieut.-Colonel Shaw Kennedy, on removal to Ireland, by General Lord Hill. Major Robert Anstruther, late 73d, on his marriage, by Major.. General the Hon. Sir F. C. Ponsonby. Major Tempest, on his return from Malta, by Captain Sir A. Green, R.N. . Lieutenant Montresor, by Lieut.-General Sir M on t resor. Colonel St o pf or d, Lieut. Saville, by Lord Cole. l Aa ,liejoutr James, . H . J by S J. Sutton, irJ. by R. Car the Honna.c Lieut. Chapman, by Sir F.. Mulcaster. Lieut. Peebles, by Colonel Gibbs. Lieut. J. D. Von. Strong, by General Morrison. Phillott, by Sir W. Gordon. Lieut. G. B. Smyth, by the Marquis of Camden. Lieut. Grassett, by Mr. Mayers. Lieut. Wilkinson, on his return to India, by. Rear-Admiral Lieut. Thompson. Lacy,by Col. Sir / Savage. Capt. G. Back, on appointment to his Majesty's ship Terror, and to present a copy of his work on his late arctic laud exptaition, by the Earl of Minto. Lieut.-Colonel Henderson was presented, on receiving the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, by Sir L. Greenwell, Aide-de-Camp tb the King. Major Molineux was presented, on his appointment to the third class of the Royal Hanoverian Go.-Jiphic Order, by his fa ther, Lieutenant-Gen era l Si r T . r vlolineux, Bart. His Majesty gave audience to the- Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Winchester, Marogis Conyngham, Viscount Pal merston, the Earl of Minto. Sir Hussey Vivian, and Lord Hill. Mr. John M'Neill was introduced at an audience by Vis count Palmerston, to take leave, on proceeding to the Court of Persia. Viscount Falkland and Sir Wm. Lumley were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. After the Levee his Majesty held a Privy Council, which was attended by the following Cabinet Ministers :—The Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. At the Council some matters relative to the slave registry of the Island of Mauritius were referred to the Judicial Com mittee. The Hon. Wm. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY. This being the day appointed for the celebration of his Majesty's birth-day, the morning was ushered in by ringing the bells in the various churches of the metropolis, Detach ments of the following regiments were inspected, by Lord Hill, the Commander-in-chief on the parade, in front of the Horse Guards ; viz., the Ist Regiment of root Guards, commanded by his Grace the Duke of Wellington ; the Coldstream, comm an d e d b y Si r William. Cornme ; and the Fusileer Guards, commanded by Col. Bowater. Shortly before ten o'clock the Commander-in-thief, accompanied by the Prince of Orange and his two sons, the Duke of Wellington, and several distinguished military officers, ar rived on the ground, and were l'oudly cheered. The bands of the different regiments struck up the national anthem, and the troops presented arms. - The Commander-in-chief and the rest of the distinguished party then rode in front and rear of the line, after which the troops passed before them in slow and quick time, the bands of each regiment playing military airs. The fineness of the weather at tracted a great number of ladies and gentlemen to witness the ceremony. The troops left the ground shortly after eleven o'clock. THEATRES. DRUR-LAN& The second effort of a young artist, or author, is generally more arduous than the first. Had The Maid of Artois been merely equal 10 The Siege of Rochelle, it would have created disappoinraient, and produced the impression of being an in ferior - P;ork. But Mr. Balfe's second opera is a production of a hif,; . tier order than his first. It is more original, more chaste, more dramatic ; and, even independently of the exertions of the peerless Malibran, would have commanded a still more fa vourable reception fem enlightened musicians. Considered as a drama, The Maid of Artois has very considerable merit. The dialogue is not remarkable for wit or brilliancy, nor are the words of the songs and concerted pieces of the highest order of poetry ; but it possesses qualities of which nineteen in twenty of our operas are destitute—a coherent and intelligible story, and characters in whom the audience take an interest. The action is supposed to take place about the end of the last century. The superiority of the music of this opera to that of The Siege of Rochelle was evident from the very overture, which is an admirable pro duction, well worthy of being generally introduced into our concerts. The opening of the piece is very agreeable, botlt to the eye and the ear. The scene represents the boulevards of Paris, peopled with a gay crowd of town's-people and soldiers in the costumes of the last century ; and the chorus sung by the different groups of men and women, is very ani mated and pleasing. The scene sung by Phillips, as the Mar quis, on his first entry, is beautiful. The air calls up a recol lection of " Over the dark blue waters" in Weber's Oberon, but cannot be said to be burrowed from that exquisite piece. The chorus of Soldiers, " Come follow with us," is one of the most original and spirited things of the kind we have ever heard. It was loudly encored, and will become very popular. The clh,rus of maidens, " The sigh from her heart.," is a de licious composition, quite worthy of Weber, and 'very much in his style. The soft accompaniment of the instruments heightens the effect of this fine strain of vocal h armony. This chorus is followed by a great scene, sung by M a d ame Mali bran ; one of the most ambitious, and, as vve - felt it, least suc cessful, efforts in the opera It was, indeed, successful in one sense—it afforded the singer ample opportunity of displaying all the wonders of her execution ; ard it was vociferously applauded. But every one who thought at all upon the subject, must have perceived that Malibran's brilliant flourishes expressed something the reverse of the feelings belonging to the situation and '.he words. We never before heard Templeton to so much advantage. He acted, as well as sang, with great spirit and feeling. Phillips gave groat effect to the character of the Marquis. His air, " The light of other days is faded," was received with enthusiasm, and will be universally sung. Giubelei and Seguin, in Sans Re gret and Synnelet, contributed much to the success of the piece ; and Miss Poole's Ninka ought not to be overlooked. The curtain fell amid deafening applauses, and calls for Mali bran and Balfe, who both came forward and made their acknowledgments to the audience. CO VENT-GARDEN. Mr. Notter, long favourably known to the public by his ci vility and attention in the box-book department of this theatre, took last night, for his annual benefit, Sheridan Knowles's play of The Wife, the laughable interlude of Hide and Seek, with the last new drama of the Steel Pavilion ; or, The Char coal Burners of the Hartz. The former piece having lain dormant for the last four years, has consequently undergone a very material, if not an entire change, in the cast of its charac ters, the most prominent of which, Julian St. Pierre, heretofore played by the anther, on this occasion devolved upon Mr. C. Kemble, who was welcomed with the heartiest plaudits, and who gave it most energetic and powerful support ; whilst those of Leonardo and Ferrardo Genzaga fell into the efficient hands of Mr. Dale and Mr. Pritchard ; and Miss Helen Faucit for the first time appeared in the arduous character of Ma riana, of which she presented a well-conceived, and, in all respects, save in physical power (in which it is much to be re gretted she is so deficient), a well-executed performance, which was received with considerable approbation. In the in terlude, Mr. Keeley resumed his part of Moses, and sustained it with his accustomed humour and success. , His reception was most cordial and gratifying. The house, though not crowded, was respectably filled. Last Wednesday night, about half-past nine o'clock, flames were observed issuing from the premises at the foot of Dunlop-street, occupied as a singeing -work, flax-store, &c. Immediately after the °wines were on the spot, hut the de vourior, element had made such rapid progress, that shortly after their arrival the buildings were unroofed, and left a dila pidated mass. By the exertions, however, of the fire depart ment, the flames were gradually got under, and prevented from spreading over the neighbouring property. We have not as yet ascertained the amount of loss sustained.—Cßavow Courier. About half-past eleven o'clock on Monday night, the inhabitants were alarmed by a smoke issuing from she shop of Robert Weir, broker, 8, High Calton, and upon the watch man and some of the neighbours entering the premises they discovered a bed in the house on fire, upon which lay the body of Euphemia Weir, his wife, completely enveloped in flames, and life quite extinct. The firemen were soon upon the spot, but did not require to work the engines. It is supposed the woman had gone to bed in a state of intoxication, which had been the cause of this melancholy event, as the husband was also found in a state of inebrity at the time it was discovered. —Edinburgh Courant. ANTWERP, MAY 19.—A murder and suicide Were committed in this town yesterday evening, under the most sin gular anew.eircums' t:Nlhe where e A elni ei p n r ge i individualv n a at t te e rhtiasinoel n hri residence s e imd o ae c r t iy e n d tfb vi ziee i o.4 t r h : e t city had passed a portion of . the day with an officer of eminence, n s ( ui la , j e o r r , a ph n i _ s) awife,nd eventaken part with him in a p a r t ' of had • garn cards He rose suddenly from his chair, and went up sta i rs ro om, from whence he presently r e t urne d, armed w e i l ti lil a is br b a e c e e . of pistols, with one of which he shot his ordinarye n d ,4 w a i i t r h . ii t a h s e p o r t o h d e u r e l e t d e a de g s r t e r a o t y s e e d n s h a t i t i n o s: i l f n . gust throu g h t h e The journeyme n j o i ners i n Leeds t h h : T v th : l:ll a e s x k t c r - a t; two shillings per week in advance upon the present wage , t o , which the masters have generally agreed. The trade is agrea f t o nrummebner st o il f l progress, and de mandeon buildingsti ae . a — re Ar l a7fa i a.? Express. " Mr. Wood, coach proprietor, of Bra.dorfa, has in, his possession townloo maini miles per r Leeds,i%tv e n e e t m a k r of or which eh has run icani as7t2ioouorot fourteen miles his conch e ni;.se aavi:.fi b ig e a t pi w iic e ar e fao n . rEated t h x a i t press. v ~ t) 5 )5 4 9 16 ° I ° o 4 0 5 0 i 1 ins or a t ) t he Ire b a d Jea Por 11 ; t tn- LIP* int itin